March 12, 2009

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The search of the office at 1 Judiciary Square is part of "an ongoing investigation," said a spokeswoman for the FBI's D.C. Field Office, Lindsay Gotwin, said.

She said two men, Yusuf Acar and Sushil Bansal, had been arrested.

Acar is an information security officer who was also, according to online requests for proposals, responsible for contracting. Bansal is listed on the city's procurement website as the CEO of the Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation, which was awarded two technologycontracts last year worth a total of $350,000.

The Washington Post and WTOP Radio report that the men are being held on bribery charges.

The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration. His last day at the city government office was March 4, a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Leslie Kershaw, said. He was appointed to the Washington post in 2007, and held it when Bansal's contract was awarded.

"We know the FBI is over there but that's all we know," said a staffer in the D.C. CTO's office, Mario Field, who was working from a separate location. Another source familiar with the raid said the FBI had sent all staffers other than senior executives home for the day. WTOP reported that agents are searching the 9th and 10th floors of the building.

A White House spokesman had no immediate comment.

D.C. mayor's spokeswoman Kershaw said, "Our office has been alerted of FBI's being at CTO office, but we cannot comment until it's over and we get more details."

We know it's not because kundra didn't pay taxes because nobody in the Obama Adminstration seemed to have paid theirs and it didn't seem to matter nor was there a punishment of any kind. So this must be really bad.

"DOW up third day running. Obama is doing really well, he must be a financial genius."
On the contrary, the rise can mostly be attributed to Citigroup's reporting of a profit & Congress' hearing on mark-to-market changes. The consensus on Wall Street is that Geithner is in over his head. The jury is still out on Obama, but his proposals given thus far have not been met well by economists (specifically, the lack of details in the proposals).

Are all the Obumble people crooks or just most. The amazing thing is that Obumble vetters found out about the nominees problems and STILL proceeded to nominate them. Even the Clinton people were withdrawn when much lesser problems were discovered. The Obumble people really believe that if Americans were dumb enough to vote for Obumble, they will accept anything and anyone. It seem that everyday brings a new fiasco.

Hopefully they're investigating all the illegal overseas internet donations that the Obama camp received during the campaign. McCain enabled filters that DID NOT allow contributions from outside the United States. Obama's site had those filters TURNED OFF. Many conservatives OUTSIDE the U.S. constantly tested both sites to see if their overseas donations were excepted or rejected. Donations to McCain were always refused. Donations to Obama always were excepted. No wonder the world's candidate had such a war chest - the world was allowed to donate to him during an American election.

... duh, duh, duh, Another one bites the dust...and another one's gone, and another one's gone, another one bites the dust!...What a joke this administration has turned out to be. I love saying I told you so!

BEN: Considering that they did not raid Kundra's office, why is he being linked to this story? It is his FORMER OFFICE for the city of D.C. If he vacated the office on February 4th, he may not even be connected to this episode. You should refrain from linking him to this raid, unless/until information is revealed that ties him to this. You are smearing a man's good name without any justification or information to do so. If information that surfaces that provides justification, THEN you should act on that information.

You guys are really sad. After eight years of a fiasco, you fools sit here and blame the market decline on the president of 50 days...Go read Ayn Rand and get Galt...Because those CEOs and Hedge fund managers are so put upon and mistreated...

DOW up third day running. Obama is doing really well, he must be a financial genius.
Posted By: Frederik | March 12, 2009 at 10:34 AM
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up 500 after plunging 2000 points. It really doesn't matter because this economic reccession and market sellout is a direct result of democratic occupation of the house and senate. Remember they took control in 2006 when the market was good and obliterated the gains. That's not Obama's or Bush's fault. The president only veto's or passes bills; it's the house and sentate that deliver the goods or crap.

Yea for the DOW; it has almost rebounded to where it was 2 weeks ago.
"I can raise and lower my blood pressure at will"
"Why would you want to raise your blood pressure?"
"So I can lower it"
-the Office

Just seems strange to me the Doe was at a record high of 14,000 + in Oct. 2007, and has been dropping like a rock since the Dems took over both houses of Congress. You can blame all this on the Bush Admin. if you want, but if Congress had done something besides make 9 attempts at impeachment, and outlaw light bulbs, we might not be in the position we are now. The Pres. does not make polocy or law, he/she only signs or does not sign what is put in front of them.

I have to agree with the above posters, Obama really knows how to pick them. Wait until they have been in office a few years and they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They are not off to a good start.

I can't stop laughing at the clowns in this administration, this is better than the circus
Posted By: Raisedby2Parents | March 12, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Any more of this talk and they'll be tracking us down to SHOOT us through the canon ...........

If this is true than this time arround there better is a real case, with a real crime comitted.
Otherwise we have to start firering top FBI officials because you can not just simply raid offices.
It's becoming disturbing that after 8 years of the criminal Bush adminsitraion and all the crimes they have comitted, never once was the FBI searching any of their offices.
Something is very rotten here and Pres. Obama has to put an end to this sharade.

To the commenter who said, "I don't believe I've seen more screw ups by an Administration . . .": You have obviously forgotten George W. Bush's invasion of a sovereign land on false pretenses, as well the destruction of a major American city and, to cap the fiasco, the total collapse of the financial sector--all during W's term. Add the suppression of the Bill of Rights of the United States of America and the desertion of the principals of the Geneva Convention, and I believe that the last administration's failures will top anything Obama can even imagine.

Sorry,MRJ but you have seen the highs in the market in your lifetime and this administration's policies guarantee that.Amazingly his chief of staff made 20 million in a couple years at a boutique investment house but that's different.

" What are there like 4 of you on here against Obama? I see that you must be the last of the wretched right wingers..
Posted By: sick of GOP sickophants March 12, 2009 at 10:46 "
Really? I have not seen sycophantic toadies for the GOP the likes of the worshipful throngs I have seen bowing and scraping before their savior.

News Flash!!!! Obama signs peace accord with Taliban and Al Qaeda, members of these organizations to recieve complimentary US citizenship and Social Security payments. In other news, the Obama administration has declared war on Great Britain. Film at 11!

GOOD NEWS! Obama is going to change his mind on the use of ?Water Boarding? as he has on such things as ?Having an Open Administration?. He is realizing he is going to need a more powerful tool to get the truth out of his appointees whom are not telling the whole story of their past when they are being questioned as possible appointees.

Ready to lead (down the crapper) on day one! Apparently Chicago-style politics doesn't work in DC.
With this "Change" all "Hope" is lost, and the "One" has become the "WORST" in shorter order than Bush!

I cannot believe anyone voted for this empty suit in the White House. He knows nothing about finances, nothing about foreign policy, and his "who cares what happens with the stock market" demeanor is destroying our economy.
In 2012, the question will not be "does he deserve another four years," but will be "who voted for this clown, anyway? Show your face, then hide your heads!"

MRJ - PLEASE don't even THINK about extending Obama's 'leadership' beyond 2012! He will NEVER do one single thing to make our economy, and our country BETTER.
Dan has it right: Obama doing NOTHING is our Nation's best course of action right now.
And I say... GOOD that this new President has THE MOST ineligible and criminal appointees than any other President in the history of this country. It keeps delaying all the really bad stuff that they intend to do to us.

I mean why is everyone on Obama, he has only been in office 50 days? Could it be that he has spent more money in 50 days that the white house has in the last 50 years or that his entire team is a bunch of crooks?

I wonder if this has to do with cyber attacks. Anybody who has opposed Obama in the courts has had their websites hacked in very sophisticated ways. And the FBI was just informed of some details from one of those people. I know the FBI investigates cyber attacks.

It is quite funny to read the comments, you can definitely tell which users clicked the link from Drudge. An FBI raid is generally a bad thing, remember, innocent until proven guilty. We'll see though.

In a really morbid way, this is rather funny. Obama was inaugurated, and the whole administration promptly started running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
I just hope the only political glass houses they break are theirs (not likely)-I've seen some of the stuff about how they've botched Russian translations and said nothing to oppose the current round of anti-Semitic zealotry in the Middle East.

BHO is already helping start new businesses...Let's all become bookies and bet on what the charges will be on THIS Obama pick...hmmm...pay to play? (Blago beat 'em to it) extortion? (got Congress for that) possession of child porn? (New DOJ asst can get'em off) hacking into Limbaugh's retirement account?...aaahhh,now we'll take bets! Bill Ayres for Ambassador to Great Britain! 2-1 against but dropping rapidly.

if obama worried as much about vetting his administration as he did about cat fighting with rush maybe this would stop happening. . .
1 billion dollars spent for every hour he's been president. but its "all bush's fault". thats change we can believe in

What about this administration saying that it was going to be the "most ethical" administration in the history of the USA? Hmmm .... seems like that was said in 1993!
Typical for liberals/left-wingers/progressives/Socialists/Communists/Marxist/Leninist - the results are the opposite of what they say is going to happen.
Well maybe this administration will become so bogged down in scandals, controversies, etc that the B. Hussein Obama Socialistic agenda will not be implemented. That would be a blessing for America and Americans.
But then again we do have President "Nothing" in charge - he has accomplished nothing, he has never made a difficult decision, and he knows nothing (especially about free-market capitalism and the US Constitution). No wonder is resume is SOOOOOO thin.

ABC,NBC,CBS,MSNBC,CNN should get COVERED UP with e-mails asking them why they won't cover this ( and they WON'T, of course ).
As I've said in previous posts, if you are in a position of authority with your company ( or a small business owner ), then LAYOFF all those who support this administration and HIRE people who are smart enough to realize that this Socialism & confiscation are only going to result in MORE lost jobs, MORE deficit, MORE government programs, MORE loss of privacy, MORE F-ups by and inexperienced PUNK & his Pelosi/Reid puppet-masters. LET THE OBAMANIACS GET THE MESSAGE IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE MANNER POSSIBLE. SHOW THEM WHAT JOB-LOSS MEANS IN THE REAL WORLD.

OBAMA is the absolute worst - if he didn't have ABC, CBS, NBC, Time, Newsweek, NY Times, Hollywood, Wash Post and the entire eastern media establishment slavishly behind him he would be rethinking this "President" thing.
So, what's a right thinking person to do? Simple - AVOID Hollywood, Wash Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, NY Times, ALL of Hollywood (not just the stupid propaganda movies). Time, Newsweek etc. The dirty secret is that without SOME support from the right these entities will wither away.
What else: Demand a conservative cable channel!

The gift that keeps giving. LMAO
Every day another apointee quits or something. Wow sure am glad that good ole culture of corruption is gone under these signafyin' Democrats. Yee Haw my fellow bitter clingers.

Why is everybody surprised at Obama's performance? Even Biden tried to tell us during the primaries that he was inexperienced and unqualified. You jerks who voted for him have in essence stuck a gun in all of our mouths and pulled the trigger.

Well looks like Pres Obama is cleaning house a good cleaning---did not someone not say this is has been on going one with FBI on this? If they only let Senior adminstration stay then. Would we not think this is about past adminstraton then? FBI could of been keeping a eye or working on this for a very long time--searches like this come later deeper into under cover work,right?

Reading the comments actually made me laugh. You guys are funny. But I thought the world was sitting at Obama's feet just breathly awaiting his every word and for the air to purify, the waters to part and the Great Hope of All to enter the world stage and save all mankind. Opps did I mess anything?

The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration. His last day at the city government office was February 4, a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Leslie Kershaw, said.
BEN, IS HE STILL OUTGOING SINCE HIS LAST DAY WAS OVER A MONTH AGO OR IS HE FORMER? AND WHY THE LINK?
ENGLISH IDIOT

All of these appointments are political favors. There is no education or expertise in any of this. It is pay and play to the nth degree. And it is the rich people in the banking industry who contributed most to the democrats not the republicans. Because democrats prey on the ignorance of the poverty class. The middle class is mainly conservative. And who do you say is getting screwed all the time? The middle class. Yep you Dems are correct, the middle class is getting hosed. By you.

Donna
When are you gonna drop that tire GB mantra - going to war on false pretenses - the Bush admin was absolutely free of scandals - diagree with policy, ok, but Obama smell like the "%&@ he's assoicated with. YES - ASSOCIATONS MATTER - THE MIDTERMS ARE COMING

Too funny. And when Hilary (the original socialist) said that he was all talk and no experience, she was shouted down! lol... well they (the far left) got exactly what they wanted, and deserve, a fool who has no idea what he's doing. He's searching frantically for experienced people who DO know what they're doing, as long as their dems, and can't find any that have paid their taxes!

Obama and all his affiliates are freakin crooks. The hole lot of them. And honestly, doesnt it bother ANYONE that he wasnt born in America? It is in the Constitution. I should bother people. But you know who cares. Lets just keep looking at the shinny lights as our country spirals.
Posted By: tony | March 12, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Hey Tony!!! I was born in Hawaii. Just to let you know. It is part of this Country. Maybe if your school district could afford up to date textbooks, you would know that!

Whenever Liberals mention GWB, Cheney, Etc., you now know they're on the run.
Remember 1.19.09?
It was the last day you could blame anybody but yourselves.
Maybe its time you start another Smear sarah Palin campaign.

There's a time-honored saying that you can best judge a man by the people he surrounds himself with. Given what's gone on over the past couple of months, this would make Obama an incompetent, adolescent moron with an inflated ego, a penchant for getting in over his head, and a lot that hasn't been vetted...yet.

The market is forward-looking (not backward). The reaction of the market is to Obama's incredibly dangerous policies and the incredibly stupid "Stimulus" package, and basically, anything that is spoken when his mouth opens.
I'm not sure what anyone expected. This is exactly what you get when you elect a totally unqualified person based soley on a marketing blitz.

An emperor of a prosperous nation who cares more about clothes than the economy or military defense appoints a legion of swindlers who promise him the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they tell him, is invisible to anyone who was either stupid or unfit for his position. The Emperor cannot see the (non-existent) cloth, but pretends that he can for fear of appearing stupid; his ministers do the same. When the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they dress him in mime. The Emperor then goes on a procession through the capital showing off his new "clothes". During the course of the procession, a small child cries out, "But he has nothing on!" The crowd realizes the child is telling the truth. The Emperor, however, holds his head high and continues the procession.

If the FBI is raiding him then he was DEFINITELY on to something that he wasn't supposed to know or see...just like they did Eliot Spitzer after he blew the whistle in the New York times on the financial crisis.
When everyone learns that up is down and down is up, then we will finally be able to restore our government.

The Post is reporting that someone else at that office (not Obama's new CTO) has been arrested at home by the FBI, which is presumably now sweeping up the related evidence from his workplace. The arrested person is Yusuf Acar, identified as an information systems security officer.
This Politico posting also seems to confuse the District's CTO (as in, your reference to "the CTO office") with the country's CTO. Kundra has moved on from one post to the other.

He is the Chief Technology Officer, right?
Wonder if this may have anything to do with the additional charges and ongoing investigation of the Palin email hacker? The latest charges had to do with his withholding information which impeding the investigation?
Wonder if he has begun to sing about his "help"?
We know that Obama has a team of aides who coordinate attacks on conservatives, groups in government who investigate private citizens and other critics. All to be released thru there willing friends in the MSM.
Would it be a surprise to find out that Obama had people breaking into private email to take down an opponent? The attack on Palin bears the same tactics which Barry Obama used to run other opponents out of his earlier races for the Senate and State offices.

"so far this administration's screwups haven't killed thousands of people or left an entire city in shambles"
Jen, you waterhead, he is leaving an entire country in shambles. Pull your head outta Hussein's sphincter and look around. It's amazing what you can see if you'll take your head out of his ass.

An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.
Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said. The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."
Acar serves as an information systems security officer in the D.C. government. He worked for Vivek Kundra, the District's chief technology officer. Kundra recently left D.C. government to become President Obama's federal chief information officer.

Dan:
The market dropped for Reagan's first six months. When your saintly 'W' came in and spoke as only a sixth grader could, the markets dropped. I guess you would just like to continue to see more and more money funneled up to the top, even though that probably isn't you.

"Hopefully they're investigating all the illegal overseas internet donations that the Obama camp received during the campaign. McCain enabled filters that DID NOT allow contributions from outside the United States. Obama's site had those filters TURNED OFF. Many conservatives OUTSIDE the U.S. constantly tested both sites to see if their overseas donations were excepted or rejected. Donations to McCain were always refused. Donations to Obama always were excepted. No wonder the world's candidate had such a war chest - the world was allowed to donate to him during an American election.
Posted By: JDW | March 12, 2009 at 10:50 AM"
I think we've got a winning comment here!!!
Why is it there is always more news in the posts rather than the original story?
Somewhere, an ObamaBot's head must be exploding. {SARCASM} (just in case)
Peace Y'all. . .

We all knew this guy had no experience at anything and the last 50 days have proved him to be completely clueless and incompetent. He reminds me of a deer in the headlights. What is scray is his utter intolerance of criticism. His party dished it out for eight years, and they better be prepared to take it. As ye sow etc. or whatever.

As you know Mr. Smith, this could be an investigation about something related to D.C. government and not directly to Mr. Kundra and not related at all to President Obama. It's called journalism everybody--get ALL the facts before drawing any conclusions.

An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.
Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said. The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."
Acar serves as an information systems security officer in the D.C. government. He worked for Vivek Kundra, the District's chief technology officer. Kundra recently left D.C. government to become President Obama's federal chief information officer.

RE: The consensus on Wall Street is that Geithner is in over his head. The jury is still out on Obama, but his proposals given thus far have not been met well by economists (specifically, the lack of details in the proposals).
WSJ article today noted that a number of noted economists gave O'Bama a grade of 59 (out of a hundred); Geithner a 51; and Bernake a 71 in their handling of the economy. So, that's a D-; "F"; and C- for the government heavy hitters. O'Bama and Geithner are clearly out of their league. And we're only in the 4th inning folks!

Did I understand this article correctly that this guy held a position under Bush and was moving to a similar, yet different, position under Obama? So, whatever they are after him for was presumably started under Bush? Is that what the article is saying? Smith could use a little more clarity in writing here.

What do expect of an Kenyan born,radical Muslim Citizen of Indonesia, never ever a US citizen, thus he is the illegal alien president who was never vetted? He vets no one, he gets money they get apointed.
This idiot the TelePromtor Puppet is going to be the shortest siiting, the most corrupt president in the history of the USA, they need one more justice to hear the case of Obozo not being born in the USA and not ever being a US citizen.
I am scared, Janet the Ex Govenor of Arizona is runs Homeland Security without a lick of qualifications she wouldn't a terrorist if was blowing up in front of her, she wants to legalize all Illegal aliens to make them democrat voters. There is no one person in this administration that has any experience, including Hillary the dumbest b--th in the world thank god she's not running America. na Obozo is twice as dangerous! Time to sink Axelrod the real President who is the brains behind Obama the Co President AKA Telepromptor queen! Yikes we are in trouble. I say clean house throw all the house and the senate out on the streets remove Obozo and get real Americans in power! Tea Party/revolution! Put the old Clinton gang in a Gitmo for life, Carvelle Axelrod Steponallofus, and all the Media hacks that have tingling feelings in their legs when Obama bloviates from the Telepromper.

@ Donna - You are a poster child for what's wrong with the education system of this country.

Did Bush or evil Karl Rove cause Katrina? Do they have a hurricaine machine we don't know about? How did they 'destroy' a town? I am pretty sure you can blame their lackluster post-storm management but really... they single handedly -- destroyed the town all the way from Washington DC? Do they have superpowers?

So what if Iraq was a sovereign country? US history is replete with attacks on 'sovereign countries' like Germany/Japan/Vietnam. Obama's is currently attacking targets in Pakistan and that is a 'sovereign' country, right? Oh, yeah. Since Obama does it, that makes it alright.

This is what you get when you elect a President by affirmative action. Obama has never run so much as a lemonade stand, but all the Liberal buffoons who voted for him didn't (and don't) care. "Save us from our sins, Dear Leader. It doesn't matter if you can't speak without a teleprompter. Hope and Change. Yes we can. Loved you in Independence Day."

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! What was that phrase you idiot Kool-Aid drinkers said about McCain picking Palin? he should have "vetted" her better? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! This ******* messiah-god-cultist is the WORST president in this country's history! Gee, I WONDER WHY?

It is because these un-respectful kids that run our country want to go in there and hook up there iPods, and twitters, and this and that and mass text to supporters and email a mass email with a weekly Presidential update, and blame Bush about how un-tech savvy they are.......THIS IS THE FREAKEN US GOVERNMENT WHERE WE PROTECT OUR PRESIDENT AND INTELLIGENCE AND PRIVACY! WE DO NOT HAVE TIME TO TWITTER WITH THESE KID-TWITTERY GAMES.....

"We call ourselves Americans but i find some negative SOBs here putting the country and the new Administration down any chnace they get. What a shame."
And just how supportive of President Bush were you?? Yes, I will put down the terrorist president Obama any chance I get, just the way the Libs attacked Bush for 8 years.

It sometimes amazes me how clueless you right wingers are. It took Bush 8 years to make this mess. It will take us more than 50 days to fix the mess.
I did see one message that makes sense hidden in all the baloney you guys have posted that makes sense.
I liked what HarryO had to say.... "You jerks who voted for him have in essence stuck a gun in all of our mouths and pulled the trigger."
I like that idea HarryO. I am tired of all your right wing nonsensical whining. Right now your job is to either get on board or get out of the way. I gather that you will never agree with anything this administration is doing. So, the right wingers' job now is to stay out of the way. Got that?

Breaking: D.C. Tech Official Busted in Federal Bribery Sting
An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.
Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said. The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."
Acar serves as an information systems security officer in the D.C. government. He worked for Vivek Kundra, the District's chief technology officer. Kundra recently left D.C. government to become President Obama's federal chief information officer.
Mafara Hobson, a spokeswoman for the mayor, declined to comment this morning.
The Office of the Chief Technology Officer has a budget of about $69 million and 298 employees.
Acar, who began working for the city in Nov. 2004, earns $127,468. He is listed as having purchased a house in Northwest Washington for $1.4 million in 2006.
By Del Quentin Wilber, David Nakamura and Nikita Stewart
Washington Post..
Sorry folks, the President of the US is not failing.. I know you are disappointed. The 25% of you with no education and no concern for anyone else but yourselves..
ba bye..

To my left-wing and centralist friends: There is a troll infestation in this forum. I say we let them have this place to vent. They need it after all their embarrassing defeats and the atrocious poll numbers and their struggles to find a voice in the wildness. When youre so powerless this type of thing can serve as a self-esteem booster!

No idea what's going on with the CTO- will wait to hear the details. But, have to respond to some of the comments here. Love all the comments claiming the low DOW is Obama's fault ... the collapse occured during Bush's term (short memory anyone?) and the current market reflects the ongoing banking industries' woes. Obama began after 8 years of irresponsible fiscal actions (two wars, lowering taxes on wealthiest 5% who didn't spend it here, deregulation, more than doubling our debt with little benefit to show for it.) so yes, we have to spend to dig ourselves out of this hole Bush got us into. So, yes, let's hope the DOW returns. Yes, let's hope Obama succeeds and America comes back to where it was before Bush and 12 years of Republican congress ruined it. Trickle down theory in a global economy failed. We already failed... lets hope our new policies do NOT fail.

Good morning all my anti-intellectual, salivating for anti- President Obama news sorely lacking an education- right wing nuts....sorry to disappoint...but, as per usual....you haven't done your homework (and neither has Ben Smith)...nothing to do with President Obama's new appointee. READ for a change before flapping your jaws.http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2009/03/breaking_dc_tech_official_bust.html

QUICK. Help me organize a signing ceremony and create a distraction from my responsibilities. Let me send you a twitter to organize a weekend Obama support rally at your home. Have I hit you up for another $25 donation recently? Help me bring change America needs.

@Truthseeker
Your post is one of the few sane ones this morning it seems. I think it would have been useful for Ben to give some background on Kundra - it might have stopped some people, for instance, linking him to President Obama's campaign website etc. and jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions.

Here is a short background to Mr. Kundra written by ctovision

Every CTO I know has heard of Vivek Kundra, CTO of the District of Columbia. We have all been following his accomplishments in transforming the technology program in DC and have watched in excitement as more and more capabilities have been rolled out to serve the city and its citizens. We have followed reports of bold moves he put in place to ensure technology programs deliver. We have read about his new approaches to technology portfolio management and watched as he discussed the leap ahead he delivered to his enterprise by his audacious, courageous use of Google Apps and other cloud-based solutions.

If you are not one of those familiar with Vivek, here is a short bio: Vivek Kundra is the CTO for the District of Columbia where he leads an organization of over 600 staff that provides technology services and leadership for 86 agencies, 38,000 employees, residents, businesses, and 14 million annual visitors. He brings to the role of CTO a diverse record that combines technology and public policy experience in government, private industry, and academia. Previously, Vivek served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the first dual cabinet role in the state's history.

In the private sector, Vivek led technology companies serving national and international customers. Earlier he served as Director of Infrastructure Technology for Arlington, Virginia. He also taught classes on emerging and disruptive technologies at the University of Maryland. Since Vivek became District CTO, he has been honored with major IT awards.

In 2008, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium recognized him among outstanding IT innovators. In addition, InfoWorld Magazine named Vivek among its "CTO 25".

MAN, I'm tired of being right.
HEY LIBS..... do really want to know why you're mad? Because you can't point the finger at ANYONE but yourselves. That is all you have done for 8 years. 1 guy even started complaining about Newt Gingrich. HE had to go back REALLY far to point a finger.
dum dum dum.... another one bites the dust.
Thank you mr. Gore for inventing the internet.... because we would have NEVER heard about this on nbc, cbs, or abc.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

The comments on this board are hilarious. Dems/repubs..can't you see..you're both 2 sides of the same coin..this country has been purposely been set on the path to destruction by both Dems/repubs. Obama is no more incompetent than the clown that just finished 8 years. All brought to you by a public education system that doesn't allow thinking...and this includes American Universities, all supported by mainstream media who learned journalism from Soviets and Nazi's. Swell. Bring on American Revolution 2.0..we can clean house.

Let me see... Outgoing CTO appointed by Bush administration in 2007. Appointed to be CIO for Obama administration but has not started yet.
Office of the Bush CTO raided by FBI looking for evidence. Bet they find more evidence to hang Rove,Cheney and Bush.
You wingnuts don't read before you bash do you?
Oh and The DOW won't be back above 10,000 for decades. It was a fake bubble built on non existent assets. Just like the great depression...

For the first time in my adult life I am finally angry with the FBI for it's role in exposing my husband as a flake who knows nothing about governing and has been only able to brand himself as the new Coke. Folks need to give him a break. Folks have you heard we are getting a puppy? I tell you, folks sure make me angry.

Considering that there's nothing linking Kundra to any of this, I hope he sues Politico for defamation of character when the truth emerges. It's absurd that this "news org" would post such a salacious piece without any facts to back up a connection to Kundra!

bigtime
What good does calling the President and Speaker names do except to expose the fact that you have nothing cogent or issue oriented to say. Some people have to have something to say about everything even when they have nothing to say at all.

It must be some terrible mistake as I am sure the Obama administration did its usual good job of vetting Kundra before appointing him to the position of Chief Information Officer.
You gotta love the Zerobama Administration.

Can't you whiny right-wingers get anything correct? VK isn't the target.
An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.
Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said. The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."
Acar serves as an information systems security officer in the D.C. government. He worked for Vivek Kundra, the District's chief technology officer. Kundra recently left D.C. government to become President Obama's federal chief information officer. Kundra's deputy, Thomas Jones, is acting as the interim director, city officials said.

WHAT DO YA'LL NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS? First of all, Ben Smith's article is at best, mistaken - but rest assured it is probably an intentional twisting of facts.
THE OFFICE THAT WAS RAIDED IS NOT OBAMA'S CTO OFFICE - he does not work there anymore, some other guy in the office (that has 298 employees) is the subject of the investigation.
Furthermore - this guy served under GWB in a similar position.
But don't let little things like facts get in the way of your hate.

So add the FBI to the growing list of The Barry's Administrations enemy list. All Barry does is spend money on useless crap, add on to his enemy list and want to be wined and dined for being the Messiah.

Oh my! What a Surprise. This is sure is Change! I'm personally sorry for all the Americans that are hurting right now, but this administration will go down in flames I betcha. Only problem is that the country won't recover from his Marxist policies for years to come. Welcome to the United Socialist States of America.

The Obama will be able to retire the federal deficit just by selling presidential pardons to his corrupt appointees at a nickel a piece. It's a good thing for Diogenes that he didn't live long enough to have to search for an honest Obamoron.

Sick of GOP sickophant...You counted "4" against obama? Where did you learn to count...or, should I ask...Did you learn to count? With your obvious masterey of math, perhaps you should solicit a position in the new administration.

I want to be on the Obama tax plan.
From what I can tell...you do not have to pay all of your income taxes until you are nominated for his cabinet. Then you do not have pay penalty or interest. I would of course decline the nomination then.

This is another reason for right wing conservatives to say- you see this guy is more of the same. The fact that all these Obama's appointees are dropping out is because of the high standard that was put in place by Obama himself. if Obama didn't raise the bar so high, non of you people will hear anything about people dropping out. If this were past administrations it wouldn't be an issue. I like that he has raised the bar so high that everyone including himself will be accountable. That's what transparency is all about. You republicans should just give up already, the fact that you ran the government to the ground for the past 8 years is evident that your policies don't work. Your cut taxes silver bullet to every problem is so Goldwater.. wake up, this is 2009.

You all are going to love the carbon credits and cap and trade.
Have yall noticed there is a big wall street scam about every 10 years that brings the markets down after the insiders have made billions???
Thats the next Junk Bond (leveraged buy outs)1988, Hedgefund (long term Capital)1998
Junk Mortagae backed securities 2008.
Carbon Credits cap and trade is the new one but we wont have to wait 10 years for it to ruin the economy.
Obama is Mr. Carbon Credit Mark my Words.

Well the rest of the world must like us cause the administration has become a comedy sitcom, "Meet the Obamas". We are now a laughing stock due to these sophomoric morons in the Obama administration. Change we can believe in.

FBI warning the Radical Barrack Hussien Obomber/ Aka Barry Soetoro wanted for crimes against America. Reward for any info on the Dictator Obomber! Contact Nancy Pelosi the new VP, because Biden is sleeping!

Wow! What a great judge of character good ol' Barack Obama is!
Let's see: angry black racists, domestic terrorists, convicted felon slumlord, a corrupt governor that Barry endorsed not once but twice, tax cheating cabinet appointees, and now this douche bag. "Hope and Change" we can believe in???

So many people commenting and not reading (or perhaps not comprehending) any of the other comments. For the third or fourth time now:
"An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.
Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said."
Look it up at Google News or something, will you?

Um, how is this connected to Obama's appointee. This headline is misleading if not completely false. Obama's appointee has not been in this office for over a month. If someone raided the last apartment I lived in would that be in relation to me? Possibly, but probably not.

"YOUR NUTS - - WOULD MC CAIN HAVE DONE BETTER???" McCain would have vetoed that spending bill until the crap was removed. He also would not have pushed a stimulus bill that had as many favors to special interests as they one that passed did. He would not propose a budget to send us into backrupcy. He would not have spit in the face of our country's closest ally. He would have focused on the finacial problem instead of using it to pass a radical agenda.

we have a nation of educated smart people and the president should be able to pick some of the very best to fill the jobs we need to best serve our nation but instead he picks a pack of crooks tax cheats and boobs to do it, you can usually judge a person by the company they keep and group they choose to surround them so I have to say mr prez you are surrounding your self with a group idiots boobs and cheats what does that say about you?

mrj wrote: "if Obama gets the Dow back to where it was, I will personally campaign for him in 2012."
Would that be where it was in July 1932 or October 2007, or will any date in the last 100 years work ???
I believe Obama can meet that challenge - where it was - yeah that is doable.
Start getting in shape for that door to door campaigning.

Just more Change folks........Yep......Obama's administration sure is different than Bush's.............Worse! and we are less than two months in to it........it's going to be a long painful four years......God help America.........

53% of Americans predict another great depression. Obama has stolen our hope and will leave us with nothing but change in our pockets. I hope all the fat cats (on both sides of the aisle) enjoy their pork dinners because come the next election we need to send them all packing. NO MORE PORK! Stop spending OUR money on crappy little pet projects. CUT TAXES FOR EVERYONE AND THE ECONOMY WILL GROW - EVEN FREAKIN' CHINA FIGURED THIS OUT!!!

I cannot believe this is our Commander in Chief - what an embarrassment - it is absolutely frightening. Where is this guy's discernment? I cannot wait for him to start dealing with REAL enemies...good grief, what a circus and embarrassment.

Liberals always go too far, and that includes Barack Obama, sooner or later the truth will come out about this liar and what 'he' really wants, a Nazi-style America, with ACORN-types his little 'brown-shirts'.

Nothing linking Kundra to this???
How old are you - six?
What goes on under your watch is your problem. So in your world, you can be head of an agency but not responsible for what goes on there? Guess thats what we call "Democrats".
How can you possible ignore that the one gift Obama has is picking every single appointee in the nation who is tainted by corruption.

This story needs a rewrite for clarity. It took a few rereads before I realized that Vivek Kundra was CTO of the CITY of Washington, DC, since 2007 but has since been appointed CIO by Obama on a Federal level.
The story is overly vague and needs to have the few details that it does have straightened out.
My journalism professors would not have given this story a good grade.

Folks, these are not mistakes. These are his real plans. Obama is trying to pull the wool over our eyes. For those who don't see this yet,you will. His administration can't be THIS incompetent, can they?

Should this come as a shock to anyone? The signs as to what a mistake it would be to elect Barack Obama to the presidency were all there during the campaign cycle. The mainstream media ignored them and glorified him, the ignorant and starry-eyed believed everything that came out of his mouth, and Hollywood fawned over him. What was sown is being reaped.

tell me ditoheads- what does a systems security officer working since 2004 in the D.C.'s Technology Office under investigation for taking bribes have to do with Obama or his administration? Also, how is Obama responsible for the banking industries and DOW crashing before he was even elected? And just what is 'fake' about a certified copy of a birth certificate from Hawaii?

I am not trying to be funny here.
I voted for MR. Obama and I say this with a straight face....
Can we have a re-do? a do-over? another vote? Anything? Can we at least have a vote to decide if we could please have another vote?
Pleeeeeeease!!!!!!!!

Why do you Republicans so desperately want our president to fail.?As much as I despised Bush's election, after 9/11 I (along with 90% of all Americans) supported him and wanted to see him succeed. I gave him a chance. President Obama faces the most difficult circumstances any incoming president has faced since Franklin Roosevelt, and so many of you Republicans are eager and desperate to see him (and thus the country) fail. What's wrong with you people? Why are you so filled with hate? You don't even have enough decency to even fake like you care about the future of this country - only seeing Obama fail. No wonder your party is in shambles.

As suspected, this had NOTHING to do with Kundra! I don't know these people, but the way Politico has handle this story is despicable. You linked someone, Mr. Kundra, to this story without even one questioning the details. Why would the FBI raid Mr. Kundra's former office, and not his home or present office? If this is an "ongoing investigation," how would this investigation not turned up in Mr. Kundra's vetting for his White House position, especially since all appointees endure FBI vetting and have to have clearance to serve? This was a terribly sloppy piece. But, sadly... sickeningly, it reflects the current sorry state of our media -- willing to jump the gun without regard for the facts. What a disservice!

I wonder if those who were so quick to accuse the obama administration will acknowledge their own stupidity when they find out this has nothing to do with Mr. Obama or his appointee but a staff person of the DC CTO.

Some great right wing commentators today! Bravo!
"Come On give the Big "O" a break. Do any of you realize how hard it is to find an honest Socialist?
Posted By: glg46"
First of all, read the article, secondly, Apparently its hard to find an honest republican when they are busy with frivolous lawsuits(coleman), campaign fraud investigations (coleman / steele), and tax evasion (Palin). Man thats a crew you guys had, Dont even make me list out the ones in Bush's admin.
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It would be nice if some here actually do realize that now people actually care who is appointed, back when bush did his thing, people let it ride with him filling his spots with Business men looking out for themselves, and constitutional crashes like Cheney with his executive murder squad.
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The stuff you wingers want to try and make stick is peanuts compared to what your BFF GWB did

Ben, Please update your post; THIS IS SOMEONE IN THE AGENCY WHO HAS BEEN ARRESTED; NOT THE OBAMA APPOINTEE!!
REMEMBER, THE GIRL W/THE BACKWARD "B" CARVED IN HER FACE BY AN OBAMA SUPPORTER!!! YOU JUMPED TO FAST; THIS APPEARS TO BE THE SAME!! SHAME ON YOU FOR SMEARING THIS GUY'S GOOD NAME!!!!

Donna, Donna, Donna, you certainly live in a different universe! You're confusing faulty intel with false pretenses, implying intentional deceit that you can't prove. (BTW, I didn't support the invasion of Iraq.) And I didn't realize Bush destroyed a major American city. How did the media miss that? And the financial collapse? The weakening of the foundation was a Democrat creation dating back to Carter. Next, name one victim whose Bill of Rights was violated. Last, you should read the report from the Pentagon that confirmed that Bush's treatment of enemy combatants complied with the Geneva Convention - the study that was requested by BHO on day 2! Just curious, what color is the sky where you exist?

So since this is known to be a conservative spot....
Here's some questions....
#1 Why do "most" conservatives think so small?
Example: We need to focus on one thing at a time. Obama is trying
to do to much.
#2 Why do ya have some many sexual hang-ups? Why do you hate everyone except white people?
#3 Is George W. Bush really smarter than a fifth grader?

MSNBC just now reported that Kundra's old offices in the DC government were raided and the FBI said that Kundra is NOT a target of the investigation. What a crappy headline and an expected crappy story from Politicrap.